Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. We believe this shouldn’t be done alone. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.

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OUR Members

A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on highly technical builders in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 1,000 members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Hongzi
Hongzi is the co-founder of Particle.
Rob
into film, computation, writing, social systems. previously founding engineer at substack, founding engineer at fin.com, early team / technical lead at venmo
Vinay
Building the Next Ad Agency powered by AI Agents accessible to Thousands of Businesses.
Drishan
I work on applications of machine learning to natural language. I am currently working on RL alignment techniques for LLMs + information retrieval.
Christopher
Chris is an entrepreneur and engineer from Waterloo, Canada. With a background in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Chris has worked at several companies doing software, firmware, neurotechnology research, and machine learning.
Idan
Currently Co-founding Epoch with Akash Bhatia! Previously at Unity, adjunct at IGM @ RIT, CTO at Sandbox VR, co-founder of Dream Garage, incepted Hackster.io, and created the gTar.
Scott
Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.
Aaron
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.
Mac
Hi, I'm Mac 👋. I'm actively exploring problems at the intersection of AI and American dynamism. My inbox is always open and I'm looking forward to meeting all of you!
Kevin
Co-Founder and CEO @ Doppel.xyz. Formerly Staff Eng / EM @ Lyft, SWE @ Uber building Dispatch / Airspace platforms and shipping products. Georgetown alum based in SF, from Boston originally. I love playing basketball and spending time with my wife and dog

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Our members have started 250+ companies, including several unicorns. Others have become core contributors to leading research organizations, open-source software projects, and academic institutions.

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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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